Ascendant 3: A Progression Fantasy by EmergencyComplaints

Author:EmergencyComplaints [EmergencyComplaints]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Podium Publishing
Published: 2024-11-12T00:00:00+00:00

Niramyn was frustrated. No matter what he did, it was two steps forward and three steps back. Myzalik had discovered his return far too quickly and was proving remarkably adept at putting obstacles in Niramyn’s way. He’d barely finished clawing his way back up to the tenth layer before he’d been discovered.

Someone had betrayed them, someone who thought they stood to gain more in the rival Exarch’s service than they did in Niramyn’s. He’d been careful about who he’d brought back under his power, both because he’d been wary of this exact scenario and because until he regained access to his full power at the twelfth layer, he was vulnerable to treachery of a more direct sort. The last thing he needed was to find himself pushed out of the timeline for a decade or two, only to come back and find ascendant society fully under Myzalik’s control.

His new home lacked the view his palace on Vislarg had boasted, but the arcana-infused wine was still good. He sipped at it idly while he surveyed the rather dreary-looking hall he’d found himself in. It belonged to some petty mortal king of some country or another. Niramyn couldn’t remember what the humans called it.

It would do, for now, but it was seriously lacking in amenities. Unfortunately, one of his former vassals had clued Myzalik in to how Niramyn constructed several of his defenses and how best to go about turning them against their owner, so for the time being, this was what he had.

An ascendant appeared nearby and bowed at the waist. “Master,” she said. She was tall, thin, had blonde hair. Valicin, he thought her name was.

“What is it?” he snapped. “Good news on our little project, I hope?”

“Of a sort,” she said. “I … still haven’t found him, but his echoes have disappeared from the fourth and fifth layers.”

It was nice to know that his offspring, for lack of a better term, was still moving forward. That was one weapon he still had hidden away while it was being honed. Though if they couldn’t figure out where the boy had gotten off to, it wouldn’t do him much good.

“You need to find him before he begins his ascension. If he transcends the boundary and he’s not firmly under my control and sheltered from other ascendants, everything I’ve invested in him will go to waste. If I lose my investment, I will punish you.”

Valicin knew better than to flinch in front of him, but he could see past her blank expression. She was scared. Good. It would motivate her to correct her error in losing him in the first place.

“Is there anything else?” Niramyn asked, idly sipping at his wine again before releasing the goblet to float in the air next to him.

“No, Exarch. I will continue to look for him.”

“Do so. Report back to me in a week if you haven’t found him by then.”

“Yes, Exarch.”

Then Valicin was gone. If she hadn’t found the missing boy by then, he’d have to attend to it himself.

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